Famous Quotes & Sayings

Prince

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

Plutarch

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Terry Pratchett

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

Terence McKenna

It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.

Temple Grandin

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

Scarlett Johansson

I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work....

Shari Arison

Every person - with his or her own skills, abilities and uniqueness - can contribute to others and bring great joy to those that fortune has not smiled upon.

Peter Travers

Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.

Peter Senge

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

Phyllis Bottome

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

Phyllis Diller

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

Joshua Waitzkin

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

Konrad Adenauer

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Kofi Annan

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

Ron Kaufman

Service skills are the foundation for your success.

Rush Limbaugh

The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.

Rush Limbaugh

Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.

Tony Judt

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Tom Waits

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

Steve McFadden

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Spencer Wells

We are all Africans under the skin.

Linda Ronstadt

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Lee R. Raymond

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.

Lauren Conrad

I always wear bronzer because I love the way my skin looks when it's tan.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Steven Soderbergh

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

Steven Spielberg

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

Robert Bridges

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

Tiberius

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

Russell Wilson

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Sam Mendes

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.